Improvement in horse-collars



NrrnD STATES ATEN GEORGE F. PARSONS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,267, dated November29, 1864.

To @ZZ whom; it may concern.-

Bc it known that I, GEORGE F. PARSONS, of Jthe city of Baltimore, in theState of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inHorse-Collars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and marks therein, saiddrawings forming part of this speciiicatiou.

In the construction of collars for horses, mules, 'and such otheranimals as may be used for drawing vehicles, burdens, diro., two 0r morethicknesses of leather, or such other material as may be used for thepurpose, have heretofore been secured together by sewing or stitching.Under use such sewing or stitching is very apt to yield, and the collarthereby or th erei'roni will frequently need to be repaired. It' a partof the collar be made of india-rubber or gutta-percha, or elastic cloth,or hemp cloth, it is very dit'iicult uniting` the diii'ercnt thicknessesor layers by sewing'or stitching. In order to obviaie the difficultiesand evils here named in making such collars, I use for the purpose ot'uniting the diii'erent layers or thicknesses ot' thc leather or othermaterial metallic rivets, making the holes through the leather or otherfabric for the putting in of the rivets, and using a washer andclinching or securing` the rivets in any known way and by the usual orany known means or devices.

By Figure l of the drawings is shown a horse-collar constructed in thisway, Fig. 2 showing by vertical section the usual metal rivet andwasher.

The rivets may be made of any of the inetals or alloys which may bedeemed suitable. A collar of any forni or structure may be t-hus made,and when so made is not as liable to fracture or to break as when madeby stitching1 or sewing.

The heads of the rivets may be gilded or plated or coated with metal, soas to correspond with the harness-mountings, and thus Witnesses G. F.PARSONS.

Trios. T. EvnRETT, JOHN S. HOLLINGsi-IEAD.

